AEO, AEV & ESSA

Across The United Kingdom,

Representing event organisers, venues and suppliers.

Together we are stronger.
AEO, AEV and ESSA are three trade bodies serving leading event organisers, venues and suppliers respectively. These are sister organisations, collectively representing over 350 of the most prominent and influential industry players.

Association of Event Organisers (AEO)
AEO represents companies that conceive, create, develop or manage trade and consumer events. AEO seeks to serve the collective needs of event organisers and to promote the interests of its members and the industry at large.

Association of Event Venues (AEV)
AEV serves established event venue community that is high in quality and rich in diversity. AEV is focused on creating and driving platforms that service fundamental venue and industry needs.

Event Supplier and Services Association (ESSA)
ESSA represents contractors and suppliers of goods and services to the events industry. ESSA delivers a multitude of benefits to members, buyers and clients that are aligned to its mantra of 'value, standards and community'.

Specific benefits.

All three associations are served by one experienced executive team, provided by the Events Industry Alliance (EIA). This setup ensures optimum service levels from professional staff at highly cost effective rates, thus keeping member fees down and quality outputs up.

Each association delivers a vast number of specific benefits to its members. To find out more and obtain all the information required to join, access the relevant pages via the below links:

AEO: http://www.aeo.org.uk/joinaeo
AEV: http://www.aev.org.uk/joinaev
ESSA: http://www.essa.uk.com/joinessa

Core benefits.

Core shared benefits transcend across all three associations, and include…

Unparalleled industry networking events for organisers, venues and suppliers. Only available to members, showpiece annual events include the prestigious 'AEO Excellence Awards' and 'AEO Conference'. These stunning occasions are ably supported by a plethora of additional events, ranging from high quality niche forums to the popular 'ESSA Golf / Spa Day'.
Membership of AEO, AEV or ESSA ensures 'approved supplier' status that is both recognised and respected by the industry. Each logo represents a kitemark of excellence within the event organiser, venue and supplier environments.
Innovative peer working groups across the associations ensure invaluable knowledge sharing and drive landmark industry initiatives, which benefit individual members, wider stakeholder groups, and the entire industry at large. Key subject matters include industry promotion, sustainability and technical legislation.
Leading industry research, delivered by a fulltime reactive executive resource, provides member companies with the current market trends. The annual 'EIA Facts' summarises the UK and Irish market, and is dispatched free-of-charge to members!
Members receive a constant stream of guidance on Governmental / legislative issues relevant to (and with the potential to affect) their businesses. A full-time reactive member 'projects' resource is at members' service!

Joined-up thinking; truly uniting the industry.

The EIA structure ensures that close ties between the associations and their industry stakeholders are both maintained and utilised, in order to further collective goals. These associations are built on the principle that our industry's three stakeholder groups all depend on each other to prosper! To that end, we actively facilitate the appropriate forums for 'big picture' thinking and the progression of common industry agendas.

Like it joined-up, why not join in?

AEO: http://www.aeo.org.uk/joinaeo
AEV: http://www.aev.org.uk/joinaev
ESSA: http://www.essa.uk.com/joinessa